The Best American Humor

by Moshe Waldoks

Book Overview

This debut collection of The Best American Humor celebrates the funniest short stories, essays, articles, and excerpts of the past year. The more than 40 entries in this edition feature some of the most well-known wits and humorists, including Garry Trudeau, Russell Baker, Paul Rudnick, Douglas Coupland, Garrison Keillor, Conan O'Brien, Philip Roth, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and John Updike among others. Edited by Moshe Waldoks, who co-edited the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671899406
• ISBN13: 9780671899400
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

What we wanted to do . . .

Well, I guess an annual is sure to be "old" by the next year. But I found a lot of what was laughable about human foibles in 1994 still can shake some bellies. I found this book only because I was looking for a copy of Ron Carlson's "What We Wanted To Do" short story that got a party laughing out of control when it was read aloud, a few years back. If you find the explanations of U.S. administration officials before congressional review bodies laughable, you will find this one story worth the price of the book. It begins: "What we wanted to do was spill boiling oil onto the heads of our enemies as they attempted to bang down the gates of our village, but, as everyone now knows, we had some problems,..."